The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-07
CASUALTIES.

Jan. 4-Great havoc by storms and floods in
portions of Pennsylvania
Jan, 9-Terrlble accident on Wilmington g.
Northern railroad at Wilmington Del; three
bodies burned and several men injured
Jan l0-Great storm on the Atlantic coast of
the Eastern States; several wrecks and loss of
life.
Jan. l3-Twelve men buried by caving-in OF an
ore-mlne at Alburtis, 0Pa.
Jan. 23-JaclSson (NIch.) poor-house burned
TO ground; five lives lost.
Feb. 10-One hundred thousand head of cat
tie and one hundred persons frozen to death
within radius OF one hundred miles of Dodge
City, Kan, during the winter.
Feb. flowing to floods in Boston and vicn-
ity more than ten thousand people were home
less; damage to property, SG,000O00.
Mar 1.-the steamer Oregon with eight hun
dred passengers on board, wrecked by colliding
with schooner, twenty-five miles from New
York All on board saved. Vessel valued at
81, $4,000.
May 1l-Cyclone at Kansas City, Mo-, by
which Twenty-Five lives were lost, twenty per-
sons injured and thousands of dollars worth of
property, including the courthouse, destroyed
May IA cyclone devastated Wiliamsport
and Attca, Ind, IL bridge at the latter place be-
ing destroyed. and several persons killed. Also
the villages OF Vicy Springs and Green Ridge,
Mo-, and Dayton and Zenia, o., suffered serious
Y. At Xenia nearly one hundred houses swept
way and thirty-four lives lost.
June IA train fell through trestle at St
ephens Station, S. c.; six persons killed.
1 many others fatally wounded.
lg, ia dozen men lost their lives while
ing down main building of New Orleans
Ition,
M-Tity lives lost during the recent
in Texas
29-The powder-magazine of Latin &
ar Brighton Park Ill, was struck by
and exploded; one man killed and six
sally injured.
Sewers earthquake shocks along the
'ast to the Mississippi; most severe
OaalIosJon S, c., o large portion OF which
was destroyed and great suffering and destitu-
tion existed among people. Ninety deaths re-
suited.
Sept. flour men killed and seventeen badly
injured while tearing down a building ut Indian
Sept. l4-An excursion train collided with a
freight, on the Nickel Plate road, near Silver
Creek n. Y; twelve persons killed and four
Oct. 5-Thrty persons killed and many wound
ed by boiler explosion on the steamer La Mas
cote near Cape Girardeau
Oct. IA hurricane swept along the Gulf
coast of Texas, rendering hundreds of people
destitute.
Oct. 14-Floods swept away tho town of Sa-
pine Pass and other towns in Texas, and over
two hundred persons were drowned.
Oct 2S-The limited express train on the St.
raul railroad ran into an open switch near Rio,
Wis, and thirty persons killed Brakeman
Wells held responsible and arrested.
Nov. 19-phe schooners MenelSaunee and Mar
inette wrecked of Frankfort, Mich, and seven
teen lives lost. The steamer Lucerne lost in
Lake Huron, her crew of nine men perishing.
Total loss by gale S723,000
Dec. BARK Mary Agnes de Costa wrecked
near Hallfax, during gale; captain and crew of
fourteen persisted.
Dec 6-Founderlng OF schooner Edith on
south coast New Foundland by which the crew
(thirteen persons) persisted.
Dec. 9-Locomotive explosion at Jersey Shore,
Pa, killed four men.
Dec. lJ-Total number Of vessels lost on
lakes during past season, 81; value, S2,O00,0O0
Lives lost, 1873
Dec. il--Burnlng at Point Coupe, La, OF J.
M White, finest boat on Mississippi river
over forty lives lost Loss, slSlOO0.
inn If NJ ~ IIANAI
ION MINI A. ,. Orcutt, Baptist clergyman,
Killed. by falling walls
Dec, l7-Natural gas explosion at Kokomo
IND, injured thrty-tive persons, twelve of them
seriously Whaling bark Atlantic wrecked off
coast OF San Francisco and twenty-five of crew
Dec, 9O-while footing with a p,stol thought
10 DC unloaded boy named Ora Curtis fatally
Shot James Adams, at Bunker Hill, Ind.
-, DeG; 2l-tlye men fatally injured by falling
rock IN coal NINE near Scranton, Pa.
Dec. 22.-The opera-house and city hall nj
Cheboygan, Mich, destroyed, and two prison
erS IN the lookup burned to death.
CRIMES.
Jan. William H. McNeal president of the
Lancaster Bank at Clifton, Mass reported q
detaulter TO the amount of 100000
Feb. l1-MllSe O'Connell, the incendiary who
destroyed over S60O,000 worth OF property at
Great Darlington, Mass, last summer, capt
ure6.
Feb 25-Dr Edward II. Coates shot and killed
DR.. A. B. Keith at st. Louis.
Mar ll-An aged inmate of the alr1s-house
near Lebanon, Pa, threw paris green into a
Kettle OF coffee, poisoning one hundred inmates
ten or more Of them fatally
mar ls-Patrck Ford and John Murphy New
orleans politicians, convicted of the murder of
Cap ain A. X. Murphy, after having taken poi.
son 10 escape the gIlows and being partially
revived, hanged in that city,
Mar, lS--An express tram on the Rock Island
ROAD lel INTO the hands OF masked robbers. An
old express messenger named Kellogg Nichols
81 Chleago, was killed and his safe robbed of
Mar. 17-George @. Cannon. the polvgamist.
failed to appear when his case was called at
SAT- Lake, FORGETTING S25,0O0 bail A mob
repaired to the courthouse at Car
Eotlton, Miss, where thirteen negroes were
oelrg trisd for murder. They shot ten prison
ers ana mortally wounded the remaining three.
MAJ, lo-Henry W. Jaehne, New York alder
man, arrested for bribery in connection with the
broadway railway franchise HIS trial BEGAN
NAV 10, and on the goth he was sentenced to nine
years and ten months imprisonment at Sing
olhg. james A. Richmond. president OF the
company, arrested April O. was re.arrested Oct
~ Eleven aldermen were arrested April IL
and eight in October Alderman Dury turned
state s evidence May 81 and Jake Sharp was
arrested Oct. 10 for the wholesale brhinr of
aldermen James w. FoShay, ex-president of
the Broadway road, was also arrested.
Mar, l9-The Illinois Supreme Court refused
srehoaring in the case OF Joseph c. Mackin, the
Chicago politician
Mar. 2I-Sam Archer, the last of the notori-
Gus ,AIeher Gang, found guilty of murder and
apr lat Henrietta, Tex, Valentine San
ORD aged fourteen, found guilty of the murder
ment.
Apr. 9S-Johann Most, the New Yorl, Anarch.
ISL leader indicted, ana arrested in an house of
Ill repute, May II. On June sentenced to q one
years term in Sing Sing and to paw a fine Of
$500 - W Va
APR. S0-ArTest in New York OF George Ed
- wards, the noted forger
May SAN old man OF Seventy-three wears
named Shedd murdered his wife and then
killed himself near Fekonsha Mich.
May 4--Throwing of thc dynamite-bomb into
the ranks OF three hundred Chicago Policeman
who had formed to suppress sociaiistic gath,
erlng at the West Side HaymarSet one |
policeman instantly killed, and fortv-six |
wounded, seven fatally Three Socialists Killed |
and large number wounded, by the return |
1re. The following day August and Christ |
Spies, Michael Schwab and Samuel Fielden /
were held for the murder OF Policeman Degau. |
May lo-Norman Lounsbury aged seventy. |
eight IN fit of insanity, killed his sixteen wear
S Nv Wig ana one OF his nephews and then shot |
nlhselI dead, on farm near Oswego N "
dugh N. Brooks, alias Maxwell placed on trial /
at -. Louis Tor murder Of c. A. Preller
May l6-Prank P. Gay, one OF the leading law
yers OF Atlanta, Georgia. murdered by Marshall |